What is a "Real Conservative"? - [i]The American Conservative[/i] magazine

eh. public safety should go the way of the dodo.
caveat emptor.
be smart enough not to buy an unsafe product. smoking kills. how do i know? ask bill maher... maybe the coughing?

agreed. but 'do n ot stop with genitals' warnings on chainsaws are really superfluous.stupid people should not be winning law suits.

eh. outside of products that malfunction, i don't think there should be much concern.cigarrettes never should have been a suable issue. it's a product with known addictive properties. nicotine has been known as a poison since 1826. anything that makes you cough and doesn't let you quit easily should be avoided. it's common sense. people are just bred idiots and think they should be handed life.and cars? really. you're putting yourself in a metal box connected to a constant explosion. and then. you're hurtling yourself down the road at some ungodly speed that no natural thing anywhere near that size can reach on land. and you're going to tell me that it's unreasonable to think it might burst into flames and kill you? or that maybe if you stop suddenly there's nothing to keep you from becoming forcibly aware of gravity and the motion (or relative stillness) of the earth and any attached trees?it's really not rocket science. (well. it might be in the case of cars...)

car manufacturers aren't willfully evil. for that they'd have to be producing the cars with the spoecific intent and desire to kill people. i assure you. they don't want to kill their consumers. however, they know that the product is inherently dangerous and they market it because people want it. if the people were so worried about their safety, they would have bought a volvo. (they still would any car that can survive driving off a fjord is a good car for me..) cars were still mostly luxury items into the mid seventies. it was still a sign of (even moderate) wealth. people still lived mostly in small towns or in cities with buses or had a farm cart. until the mass onslaught of the eyesore suburbs, it wasn't a necessity.so sure, the manufacturers allow for a certain number of casualties before they are forced to fix something. the military does more and we don't fault them... it took years for them to declare the osprey a deathtrap.